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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1509, 31 January 1901, Page 19

The postal returns for the quarter ending December 31st show that the revenue for the whole colony was £124,895 2s, as against £115,904 11s 7d for the fourth quarter of the preceding year. The Postal Department contributed £67,11® 17s Bd, as against £65,219 4s 3d ,* and the Telegraph Department £57,778 4s 4d, as against £.50,685 7s 4d. Th® postal ravenue at the four chief centres was m» follows:—Auckland, £10,710 ss; Wellington, £12,988 6s 9d; Christchurch., £7459 19s lOd; Dunedin, £7133 7s 4d. The telegraph revenue was as follows: Auckland, £20,156 5s 7d; Wellington, £25,534 14s sdChristchurch, £15,147 Is Id; Dunedin, £15,901 0s Bd. The analysis of the aggregate postal and telegraphic receipts for the colony shows the following .figures : —Private boxes, £987 10s ; money order commission, £4563 11b 9d; stamps, £60,776 17s 7d; postal guides, £37 17s; postal note commission, £791 16s lid; miscellaneous r©o©ipta, £9 4o sd; telegrams, £32,675 14s 8d; telephone exchanges, £22,22® fis 9d; miscellaneous telegraphic, £297® 4s sd. The statement oil telegraph, business shows the number of telegrams meat to have been-as follows: Ordinary telegrams, 742,175; urgent ordinary, 50,596; press telegrams 64,819; Government telegrams, 88,486. There war® §§,©4l bureaffl ®ommußi©atien».